Third Anniversary of Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

March 11, 2014

Japan marks the third anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed 15,884 people and left more than 2,600 unaccounted for in vast areas of its northern coast

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A fishing vessel swept ashore by the tsunami following the March 2011 earthquake sits abandoned on a breakwater in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 10, 2014. March 11 marks three years since Japan's deadliest earthquake in 2011, a magnitude-9 temblor that triggered a tsunami in northeastern Japan, leaving about 19,000 people dead or missing and hundreds of thousands homeless as it wiped out entire towns.

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A fishing vessel swept ashore by the tsunami following the March 2011 earthquake sits abandoned on a breakwater in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 10, 2014. March 11 marks three years since Japan's deadliest earthquake in 2011, a magnitude-9 temblor that triggered a tsunami in northeastern Japan, leaving about 19,000 people dead or missing and hundreds of thousands homeless as it wiped out entire towns.